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<blockquote data-quote="Glass*Soul" data-source="post: 61102847" data-attributes="member: 111155"><p>Thank you for explaining. </p><p></p><p>When theists explain or describe God to me, whether they term it the Christian God or not, their descriptions generally do not strike me as being at all likely to correspond to God as God. What they do correspond to is the teller's own greatest self, amplified to some degree or another. I like what you have said above because, if you believe in a God who does not want to upset me unduly, then this is a trait you are likely to attempt to extend to others and that is a good thing for humanity. One of the things I like about Jesus is that he painted a picture of a God who was like the most loving and attentive human father possible but even more so. What a wonderful trait. Yes. Believe in this God if you are a theist. I will suspend my non-belief for a little while for the sake of a loving Father God who does not want to unduly upset his children. It will be good for us all.</p><p></p><p>An Herod Antipas-like God, not so much. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/old/kawaii.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="^_^" title="Kawaii ^_^" data-shortname="^_^" /> </p><p></p><p>OTOH God as God is indeterminate. My every effort to imagine such crashes somewhere in the vicinity of the edge of our universe or veers off into unfathomable concepts and logical impossibilities. This is not something one believes in. Belief requires an object and God as God offers up no object. Understandably, the prospect of perceiving God as God as one's primary relationship is not a very warm and cozy feeling. I'd rather not go there. Luckily there is no reason to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glass*Soul, post: 61102847, member: 111155"] Thank you for explaining. When theists explain or describe God to me, whether they term it the Christian God or not, their descriptions generally do not strike me as being at all likely to correspond to God as God. What they do correspond to is the teller's own greatest self, amplified to some degree or another. I like what you have said above because, if you believe in a God who does not want to upset me unduly, then this is a trait you are likely to attempt to extend to others and that is a good thing for humanity. One of the things I like about Jesus is that he painted a picture of a God who was like the most loving and attentive human father possible but even more so. What a wonderful trait. Yes. Believe in this God if you are a theist. I will suspend my non-belief for a little while for the sake of a loving Father God who does not want to unduly upset his children. It will be good for us all. An Herod Antipas-like God, not so much. ^_^ OTOH God as God is indeterminate. My every effort to imagine such crashes somewhere in the vicinity of the edge of our universe or veers off into unfathomable concepts and logical impossibilities. This is not something one believes in. Belief requires an object and God as God offers up no object. Understandably, the prospect of perceiving God as God as one's primary relationship is not a very warm and cozy feeling. I'd rather not go there. Luckily there is no reason to do so. [/QUOTE]
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